chiavarm Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Stumbled onto this site and thought it looked interesting but I don't know Russian. I guessed correctly the link for maps. Thought others might be interested who know Russian or don't mind. PKKA 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John D Salt Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Originally posted by chiavarm: Stumbled onto this site and thought it looked interesting but I don't know Russian. I guessed correctly the link for maps. Thought others might be interested who know Russian or don't mind. PKKA The site includes, mirabile dictu, a manual on the elusive 37mm spade mortar. It confirms that, yes, they did indeed expect you to use it as a spade. The date of the manual, 1942, is later than I expected. It gives the first details I have seen for this weapon, namely range of 60m to 250m, and overall weight of 1.5Kg; unfortunately it doesn't seem to give the bomb weight anywhere. Nor are there any details of the proposed scale of issue. Now I hope someone unearths manuals for my other favourite weird Sovet weapons, the Kartukov ampulomyot and the LMG rocket-mine... All the best, John. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiredboots Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 What do you mean by LMG rocket- mine. An LMG firing rocket proppeled land mines?? Or is this a grognard's joke? As for the ampulemet there seems to have been 2 versions. A mortar-like contraption & a rifle grenade launcher. In both cases it probably caused more casualties among the operators than the enemy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 John D Salt, Ian Hogg's GRENADES & MORTARS (Ballantines Weapons Book No. 37) lists the projectile weight as ~1.5 lbs on page 129. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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